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Steven Spielberg picked up the phone at his Universal Studios

office.

“You gotta get over here!” Martin Scorsese breathlessly

told him. “This score is brilliant! You gotta drive over

here!”

Spielberg immediately headed to Warner Bros.

Studios, where Scorsese had been sitting in on the

scoring session for his new movie, ‘Taxi Driver.’

“You gotta meet Bernard Herrmann,” Scorsese

said. He grabbed Spielberg by the hand, raced

him into the recording studio and parked him

squarely before the great composer who, even

seated, projected an imposing figure, his large,

protruding stomach showered with cigar ashes.

“Bennie, this is my friend Steven Spielberg,”

Scorsese said.

“Oh, Mr. Herrmann!” Spielberg blurted. “I’m

such an admirer of your work. You’re such an

amazing genius!”

Herrmann flashed one of his infamous

scowls.

Then he replied, “So why do you

always hire John Williams?”

By Dann Gire

John Williams and Steven Spielberg

are avatars of simpatico in action

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